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Didrachm
| Issuer | Teanum Sidicinum (Campania) |
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| Year | 265 BC - 240 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Heracles facing right, wearing the lion-skin headdress draped over the neck and shoulders, rendered in vigorous Campanian style with finely detailed curling hair. An Oscan legend in Old Italic script appears before the face in the right field. The portrait is boldly modelled in high relief, characteristic of the Campanian Greek coinage tradition of the early third century BC. |
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| Reverse description | Nike (Victory), winged and draped, driving a triga — a three-horse chariot — at full gallop to the left, her outstretched arms firmly controlling the reins; the horses are rendered with spirited energy and anatomical detail. The spoke-wheeled chariot is depicted in profile below the figures. An Oscan legend in Old Italic script is inscribed in the exergue below a ground line, identifying the issuing community of Teanum Sidicinum. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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